Senior Agentic AI Architect - Azure Foundry

Cognizant; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k)

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee stock plan

Job summary

Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice seeks a Senior Architect to design and deliver enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions. You will define reference architectures spanning pro-code agentic systems on Azure AI Foundry and low-code automation on Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio.

You will lead teams, select patterns, and ensure responsible AI guardrails across deployments, traveling as needed to client locations for engagements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud solution architecture; 2+ years designing and delivering agentic AI systems in production or near-production environments.
• Demonstrable experience with pro-code agentic systems (Azure AI Foundry, MAF) and low-code automation platforms (Copilot Studio, Power Platform).
• Strong understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations: tool call reliability, context management, grounding, and responsible AI principles.
• Azure certifications: AI-102 and AZ-900 required; AZ-305 and PL-200 (Power Platform) preferred.
• Client-facing delivery experience in consulting or professional services context.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end reference architectures for agentic AI across pro-code and low-code platforms.
• Select and justify appropriate agentic patterns based on use-case requirements and team capabilities.
• Lead engineering teams from local development to production deployment on Azure AI Foundry or Power Platform.
• Guide platform and framework selection with clear trade-off rationale per engagement.
• Serve as the primary AI architecture authority in client engagements: discovery workshops and roadmaps.
• Develop reusable practice IP: reference architectures, playbooks, accelerators.
• Embed responsible AI guardrails and production readiness standards across deployments.

Skills

Agentic AI patterns

Azure AI Foundry

MAF (Microsoft Agent Framework)

Copilot Studio

Power Platform (Power Automate/Apps/Da

Python

Azure CLI / Azure infra

Education

Azure certifications: AI-102, AZ-900 required; AZ-305 and PL-200 preferred

Tools

Azure AI Foundry SDK

Azure OpenAI SDK

LangGraph

AG-UI

MCP

Job description

Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice seeks a Senior Architect to design and deliver enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions. You will define reference architectures spanning pro-code agentic systems on Azure AI Foundry and low-code automation on Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio.

You will lead teams, select patterns, and ensure responsible AI guardrails across deployments, traveling as needed to client locations for engagements.